🎯 Free Hub: https://professorerica.com/pentestplus • 📝 Practice Test: https://professorerica.com/pentestplus-practice – Web recon maps the attack surface before the first exploit attempt. This video covers the four-step professional web recon workflow: reading robots.txt and sitemap.xml for developer-disclosed hints, technology fingerprinting with WhatWeb and Wappalyzer, web crawling with gospider and hakrawler for application graph mapping and JS endpoint extraction, and directory busting with Gobuster and Feroxbuster (including why 403 responses are findings, not dead ends). Full PenTest+ PT0-003 playlist in description.

Chapters:
0: 00 What Web Recon Actually Reveals Before the First Exploit
2: 29 Directory Busting with Gobuster and Feroxbuster
4: 01 Web Crawling: Mapping the Application Graph
6: 07 Robots.txt and Sitemap.xml: The Developer’s Own Hints
8: 11 Technology Fingerprinting with WhatWeb and Wappalyzer
9: 55 Building a Complete Web Recon Workflow
12: 00 Quiz Time

#webrecon #directorybusting #gobuster #feroxbuster #robotstxtsecurity

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